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A review by purstiltski
Autoportrait by Edouard Levé
4.0
Whenever someone asked "What are you reading?" I wasn't sure how to respond. It's a very interesting piece. If I didn't know Levé took his own life, I would have read it differently. As much as I feel work stands, in many ways, independent of/with its author, he is always there holding it in his hands. There's just something to an "I" that I know is dead.
I like the simplicity that Levé desired in his writing. Some of my favorite fragments from today:
"I thank people easily."
"I try to write prose that will be changed neither by translation nor by the passage of time."
"In Vieux-Boucau I tried to surf one afternoon, without success, I had no intuitive sense of how it ought to be done, or of the pleasure I'd feel if I did it right."
"I have sometimes taken pictures knowing in advance that they would be bad."
"I do not know what prudence means."
"I recollect more than I collect."
I like the simplicity that Levé desired in his writing. Some of my favorite fragments from today:
"I thank people easily."
"I try to write prose that will be changed neither by translation nor by the passage of time."
"In Vieux-Boucau I tried to surf one afternoon, without success, I had no intuitive sense of how it ought to be done, or of the pleasure I'd feel if I did it right."
"I have sometimes taken pictures knowing in advance that they would be bad."
"I do not know what prudence means."
"I recollect more than I collect."